Lead HR Business Partner

Our people are fundamental to our mission to ensure fossil free living within one generation. Do you want to contribute to our purpose? Join us as Lead HR Business Partner and make a real impact across the People Function in BA Markets and the Business Unit Trading. 

As Lead HR Business Partner, you will be an important key partner to the Business Unit Trading Management Team while helping shape the People agenda across BA Markets and Vattenfall Group. Next to being an integral part of the Management Team of BU Trading, you are also a core member of the HR BP team within the People function of Business Area Markets. You will report directly to the Vice President of People, Business Area Markets. 

We offer you an influential position within an international, open and inspiring environment.  

The purpose of the Lead HR Business Partnering is to ensure that the HR strategy is properly executed and meets the business needs within your area of responsibility. You manage and inspire the stakeholders within the frameworks set by Corporate People & Culture. In the light of our continuous ambition for excellence, you ensure that the set People plans and targets contribute towards added value to the business. You will also support the Vice President People for Business Area Markets, in delivering transformational plans linked to the ongoing delivery of strategic and growth initiatives within BA Markets and within People & Culture.   

Key responsibilities:  

• Partner with the Business Unit Management Team to execute People Strategy and transformation and excellence plans.  
• Support organizational development and change management.  
• Facilitate talent management while focusing on competence and culture shift.   
• Drive HR compliance, employment law issues, and negotiations.  
• Guide BU Trading on HR policies and legal requirements.  
• Have a sound understanding of the Compensation and Benefit Plans of the respective business unit.  
• Develop recruitment strategies and resourcing plans that support business needs. 
• Assure that all Health & Safety initiatives are well implemented.

To be successful in this position, you need to be a confident senior business partner and influential leader who can bring people together towards a common goal. This role will require a natural ability to manage several priorities, while focusing on the bigger picture.  
  
Our ideal candidate has the following qualifications:   

• Academic degree in HR, Law, or related field.  
• Multiple years of relevant HR expertise in a guiding role.  
• Experience with collective labor agreements and HR regulations in Germany.  
• Proven and senior HR leadership in international matrix organizations, supporting executives.  
• Fluent in German and English with excellent communication skills.   

Next to this, you:  

• have a proactive and performance focused profile – you drive change and work in partnership with the business. 
• have an analytical, strategic mindset with a clear vision for the people perspective in the business. 
• navigate within an international matrix organization with ease, building strong relationships and influencing stakeholders across all levels of the business. 
• live our Vattenfall experience principles: open, active, positive and safe, and challenge others to do the same. 

Benefits

Your development is a priority at Vattenfall BA Markets. Your professional journey will benefit from working in the exciting industry of energy trading, and in interdisciplinary teams. To support your career, we offer opportunities to grow through training, job rotations, talent programs and a working environment that stimulates learning.

Our work culture at Vattenfall is excellent. We have an open corporate culture with flat hierarchies. Modern and flexible working conditions, including mobile work, promote wellbeing. In Germany, our work week consists of 37.5 hours with, in many cases, the possibility to work part-time. Up to 49% of your working time can be mobile work, and you are entitled to 30 days of vacation per year.

Your health is important to us. We provide several health programs and support throughout potentially challenging life situations.

Your colleagues will be another highlight. We employ inspiring people with diverse backgrounds. Together with our culture and your tasks, they form an interesting and fun place to work.

You can find our new state of the art office next to Elbbrücken.

More information 
We welcome your application in English, no later than 20th of September 2025. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. 

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our Recruiter Jil Ungethüm via phone: +49 40 790221378. 

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, called DISA. In addition, a certificate of good conduct (i.e. criminal record certificate) is required for certain positions.
 

We look forward to receiving your application! 

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20.000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.  

Right in the heart of Vattenfall, at Business Area (BA) Markets, you will find an inspiring international environment, with a culture of care and personal growth, enabling you to be who you are, having fun, building strong relationships and learning every day. Find out what our colleagues think about our culture: https://youtu.be/-9qGrDUCptA

We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to drive the energy transition together. Our role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall’s single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates.